November 2017 High Sierra News

By Alex Wierbinski - Posted on 31 October 2017

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November 2017

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Happenings in the relationship between Man and Nature affecting our hike down life's trail through both worlds. We study both the reality created by humans and the uncreated reality reflected in, and tended by Nature.

The vast majority of our reporting on Nature comes from the American Association of Scientists summarizations of each day's bounty of the peer-reviewed research published by academic institutions and journals all around our whole world.

My focus is on everything, every living thing and natural process that we will encounter hiking from Tahoe to Whitbey. The birds, the bees, the water, the trees, and the stars at night. Among a plethora of backpacker-related topics.

You will get the latest news from the forefronts of climate, bio, Astro, and the hard sciences here, two days before it hits the corporate press, but long after they've already deeply affected Man & Nature, if the grimness of our purposeful ecological collapse even comes across the pages of the corporate press at all.

SEASONAL ROAD CLOSURES
Caltrans and Yosemite NP closed all the Seasonal Passes as of Tuesday the 14th for the impending Storms, but it looks like they are keeping them closed for the season. We'll see!

The biggest parts of a series of Lows and Fronts are passing to the North of us over the next five days, with the forcasted exceptions of Monday and Friday, when the bottom ends of thes Fronts and Storms will bring light rains and some snow, mostly across the North Sierra Crest.

Thus this week may offer the first windows into our first snow backpacking oppertunities of the season.

The threats are first, that the storms centers and Frontal "Tails," come unexpectedly South, second, that they do not, and windows of clear skies bring colder than expected temps, and third, on the other hand, that it stays warm, and sloppy semi-frozen rainy snow falls across the Sierra Crest, which is always challenging in freezing conditions.

SEASONAL ROAD CLOSURES
Caltrans and Yosemite NP closed all the Seasonal Passes as of Tuesday the 14th for the impending Storms, but it looks like they are keeping them closed for the season. We'll see!

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